July 25, 2023 | Center for Children and Families.
Dr. Meghan Swanson, CCF faculty affiliate and assistant professor of psychology in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, is the corresponding author of a new study uncovering some of the most conclusive evidence yet that parents who talk more to their infants improve their babies’ brain development. “This paper is a step toward understanding why children who hear more words go on to have better language skills and what process facilitates that mechanism,” Swanson said. “Ours is one of two new papers that are the first to show links between caregiver speech and how the brain’s white matter develops.” Read more…